Germany’s basketball group booked themselves a first-ever ticket to the Olympics because the 12-team line-up for the ladies’s event on the 2024 Paris Video games was confirmed on Sunday.
Germany beat Brazil 73-71 on the FIBA Girls’s Olympic Qualifying event in Belem, Brazil, certainly one of 4 concurrent qualifying tournaments. The opposite three tournaments happened in China, Belgium and Hungary.
“To earn the ticket, I’m simply so pleased. We simply made historical past. This group’s by no means been to the Olympics. They’re a wild bunch and I’m tremendous pleased with them,” Germany head coach Lisa Thomaidis mentioned.
Canada additionally certified on Sunday regardless of successful simply certainly one of their three qualifying matches, after Hungary have been dealt a 73-72 defeat by Spain.
“It’s a full rollercoaster when your destiny is in another person’s fingers,” Canadian ahead Natalie Achonwa mentioned.
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“But it surely was so thrilling once we obtained to have fun the second collectively understanding that our goals and our targets survive one other day and that we get to signify Canada in Paris 2024.”
Japan, Serbia and Spain have been the opposite groups to safe qualification on Sunday, whereas Australia, China, Belgium, Nigeria and Puerto Rico sealed their spots within the event on Friday and Saturday.
America earned computerized qualification after successful a record-extending eleventh Girls’s World Cup title in 2022, whereas France certified as host nation. Each groups additionally took half within the qualifying tournaments and gained all three of their video games.